"Paul Hamilton" wrote in message
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What the hell happened to the people who won the Battle of Britain?

Don

Nothing. As demonstrated during the above-mentioned Battle of Britian
and, even more so, by civilian behavior during the Blitz, the Brits
appear to lack the capacity for hysteria that is so well developed
among today's Americans.

Paul

(proud to be an American; less so to be an American of this
generation)

Likewise the lack of hysteria when the Irish were bombing our shopping
centers, the center of London etc and had no compunction in killing kids
either. Real heroes they were. Over the troubles we have had a few thousand
killed in many incidents which did not even get onto the horizon in the US
media. That which did tended to be sympathisers for the terrorists.

The British tend to have a wider view on the world. Nearly every person in
the country has a passport (approx 10% of US citizens have a passport) most
have been abroad too. Our newspapers probably feature 50 -60% of news from
around the world.
US "national" newspapers are pretty thin on world news. US regional papers
have even less. For them news from another state is foreign. In Ft Myers
this Christmas, in the NewsPress, the disaster in Iran got two sentences in
the paper of the lines
"Earthquake in Iran, 6.5 on the Richter scale. Its estimated that 20,000
people may have died.

The earthquake in Paso Roubles (rubbles) got about three sentences. The
Mudslide got about the same.

But hey, the crap written when the Vikings lost to Arizona in the final 3
seconds of regular season seems to show a sense of inappropriate values.
Afterall it was only for a place in the playoffs not the Super bowel (sic)
itself.

An observation that's all.